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Usha Sundaram, at 22, was not only the first female pilot of India after 1947 but also was the most trusted among the dignitaries. Read to know her story.

Usha Sundaram was the first woman pilot of Independent India, and while only in her twenties, facilitated several important events and missions that leaders of the freedom struggle embarked upon.

On the occasion of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's 60th birthday on 14 November, 1949, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel penned a heartfelt tribute to the Prime Minister of the newly independent nation.

Sardar Patel once told the farmers of Bardoli, "A peasant has no need to be afraid of anything because he is a son of the soil who has worked with hard rocks, wild animals, heavy rain, biting cold, scorching heat and against so many odds."

On the anniversary of the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny of 1946, it’s time we remembered the brave young men who dared to defy an Empire and “energised the hearts and minds of our sailors, infantry soldiers, airmen ordinary mill hands, students, workers, citizens."

Given the part that it played in India’s freedom movement, onions aren’t only an indispensable ingredient, they also carry emotional weight! #FoodSecrets

Although it was Patel who created the initial framework to influence the Indian princes to accede, it was Menon who did the actual groundwork of coaxing them.

“There is nothing to be ashamed of in borrowing. It involves no plagiarism. Nobody holds any patent rights in the fundamental ideas of a Constitution.”-Dr BR Ambedkar

Unwilling to be stifled by red-tapism, these 10 dedicated civil servants went above and beyond their duty in 2018 to change India for the better.

"Above all, I would advise you to maintain to the utmost the impartiality and incorruptibility of administration. A civil servant cannot afford to and must not, take part in politics. Nor must he involve himself in communal wrangles."